Re: Kworld MPEG tvtunner

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 16:37, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> 	I have this Kworld MPEG tv-tunner with PHILIPS chipset but which is
> detected by SuSE as bt878.
>
> 	Problem is when using YaST to configure the tunner, it scans for programs
> but none is found. It looks like the tv cable provider would be offline.
> However, in those frequency ranges, channels are detected well under
> windows, and windows identifies the tunner as having Philips chipset.
>
> 	I also find this link regarding other distro, but I will not renounce to
> SuSE no matter what:
> 	http://www.linux360.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?t=748&postdays=0&postorder=asc&
>start=15
>
> 	Can you please help me get this work? I would really appreciate it. It's
> actually for a very good friend, so :).
>
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> --
> Alin-Adrian Anton
> Spintech Systems
> GPG keyID 0x1E2FFF2E (2963 0C11 1AF1 96F6 0030 6EE9 D323 639D 1E2F FF2E)
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 1E2FFF2E

Anton,

Which version of SuSE and which version of the kernel?

A dmesg, and /etc/modprobe.config or the equivalent would help a lot.

Cheers,
  Dave

PS: This is what I get on my system with my card.

Form the dmesg:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.13 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 0000:03:0d.0, irq: 21, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdfeff000
bttv0: using: AVerMedia TVPhone [card=6,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00feffc3 [init]
i2c-algo-bit.o: (0) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (1) scl=1, sda=0
i2c-algo-bit.o: (2) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (3) scl=0, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: (4) scl=1, sda=1
i2c-algo-bit.o: bt848 #0 [sw] passed test.
bttv0: using tuner=2
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: 
tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 
(PV951),ta8874z
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus bt848 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) by bt848 
#0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"


And from my /etc/modprobe.config:

options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv card=6 pll=28 radio=1 tuner=2

# YaST2 configured TV card
# sLwP.ei6eMzKDZY3:User-Defined TV Card
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
alias char-major-81-1 off
alias char-major-81-2 off
alias char-major-81-3 off